 Angeloregon (2024), Portland, Oregon, USA
Aug 31, 2008 Thanks to Dave from By the Bottle for letting me in on a two-year-old bottle of this. Poured a dark brown, effervescent body with a medium off-white head. Nutty, mildly cardboardy, brown sugary, candied, and spicy. Apples, sweets, malts, bubblegum, and coriander flavors. Held up well being cellared. Great tasting complex beer.
dkachur (2315), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Aug 21, 2008 11.2 oz. bottle from Market Street Wine Shop Downtown Charlottesville dated 03/08/10. Hazy reddish brown with a big head. Moderate retention and low lacing. Aroma is banana, spice, pineapple, spice. Sweet taste shows notes of pinepple, anise, brown sugar. Alcohol is barely noticeable if at all in either the nose or the taste. Very nice way to end the evening!
Borresteijn (1347), Amstelveen, Netherlands
Aug 18, 2008 On tap. Dark brown beer, beige head. Aroma of candy, christmas spice, malts. Flavour is very sweet, a bit sour, christmas spice (speculaas), roasted malts. Again, like most of their beers, way too sweet for me.
puzzl (2579), New York, New York, USA
Aug 10, 2008 Bottle. Deep brown pour with a minor head. This beer was not what I was expecting at all. Pine and juniper dance around the malt-sweet and charcoal aroma. Big, lightly sweet malts in the flavor are unctuous but extremely drinkable, with a fast, tobacco and floral finish. Definitely the most drinkable 10.5% alcohol beer I’ve ever had. Well done.
hapjydeuce (763), Del Mar, California, USA
Jul 30, 2008 On tap at O’Briens. Deep burgundy color, fading wispy head with some bubbles. Becomes still after sipping for a while. Very sweet aroma of candy sugar, raisin, rum and a restrained bubblegum note. Toffee, cherry and grape flavors meld with some medium caramel. Ends sugary with a red wine character. Quite alcoholic. Becomes a bit difficult to drink. Somewhat unbalanced.
BoBoChamp (1334), Gent, Belgium
Jul 22, 2008 75cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex, yet heavy, clear, small head, very good X-Mas brew
Imaena (259), Portland, Maine, USA
Jul 19, 2008 750 ml bottle with Paul July 08’. Deep brown amber pour with beige head that falls slowly. Sweet candi sugar and licorice nose. Christmas pudding and rum rasin. Tight small bubbles on the carb. Beautiful well balanced beer. Paal loved it.
DocHop (278), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Jul 2, 2008 Pours a very dark, murky amber brown with a tall, thick beige head. Sweet, nutty, caramel, Belgian yeast aroma, like fruity bread. A little of that sweet then soured fruit pokes through in the beginning. The body is spritzy and a little cider like. An oily alcohol lingers on the finish. Overall very smooth and well balanced. Not a favorite style, but a great representative.
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